* Canning Stock Route

Map of the Canning Stock Route

The Canning Stock Route is one of the toughest and most remote tracks in the world.

The Canning Stock Route is now a popular but challenging four-wheel drive adventure.

Roadside sign at the southern end of the Canning Stock Route, near Wiluna, Western Australia | Wiluna

Between 1911 and 1931, only eight mobs of cattle were driven along the Canning Stock Route.

Snell personally committed to making the wells more accessible to Aboriginal people: Natives cannot draw water from the Canning Stock Route wells.

alt = Photograph of Jakub Postrzygacz with his special Bush-Bike on the Canning Stock Route near Lake Disappointment

Canning Stock Route four-wheel drive track crossing the Little Sandy Desert

The Canning Stock route is considered one of the world ’ s great four-wheel drive adventures.

The history of the Canning Stock Route has been well documented from the colonial perspective – accounts of European explorers, drovers, prospectors and law enforcers – but increasingly the Aboriginal history of the track is also being recognised, and Aboriginal people are keen to have their story told: We wanna tell you fellas ' bout things been happening in the past that hasn't been recorded, what old people had in their head.

In 2007, researchers from the Australian National University began a project to draw up the first comprehensive plan of management for the entire Canning Stock Route.

The Canning Stock Route has a strong connection to the story of Aboriginal art in the Western Desert.

In 2006, West Australian independent cultural organisation FORM instigated a contemporary arts and cultural initiative to " explore the complex history of the Canning Stock Route through the prism of contemporary Aboriginal art ".

The historical and artistic value of the project was recognised in 2008 when the National Museum of Australia decided to acquire the entire Canning Stock Route Project collection.

The National Museum of Australia acquired a significant collection of artworks and other material collected by the 60 artists who travelled along the Canning Stock Route on a six-week return to country trip in 2007 as part of the Canning Stock Route Project.

The Canning Stock Route collection includes over 100 works of art, 120 oral histories, historical research, social and cultural data, artists ' biographies, 20, 000 photographs and over 200 hours of film footage.

One of the key aims of the Canning Stock Route Project was the development of a travelling exhibition.

Yiwarra Kuju ( One Road ) – The Canning Stock Route, a joint initiative between the National Museum of Australia and FORM, was held at the museum from July 2010 to January 2011.

When it closed in January 2011, Yiwarra Kuju – The Canning Stock Route had been the most successful exhibition in the history of the Museum, with over 120, 000 visitors.

* Gard Eric & Ronele, Canning Stock Route: A Traveller ’ s Guide ( 3rd edition ), Western Desert Guides ( 2009 )

The Australian Geographic book of the Canning Stock Route, Terry Hills, NSW: Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, 1998.

Canning Stock Route map by Westprint.

The recognition of the new South American republics on the recommendation of George Canning had led to a considerable boom, encouraged by various promoters.

One of his earliest childhood memories was being made to stand on a table and say " Ladies and gentlemen " to the assembled audience, probably at a gathering to promote the election of George Canning as MP for Liverpool in 1812.

Canning had always planned to rely on Aboriginal guides to help him find water and had taken neck chains and handcuffs supplied to him by the Wiluna police to make sure local ' guides ' stayed as long as he needed them.

Canning produced a detailed map of the stock route, Plan of Wiluna – Kimberley stock route exploration ( showing positions of wells constructed 1908 – 9 and 10 ) on which he also recorded his observations of the land and water sources along the route.

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The Franchise Affair also has a historical context: although set in the 1940s, it is based on the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning.

Despite early proposals for the Jubilee Line Extension to go to Thamesmead, via the Isle of Dogs and the Royal Docks, Thamesmead was not included and after reaching the Greenwich Peninsula, the line then heads north to Stratford, London ( via Canning Town and West Ham ), despite Stratford also being on the major Central Line tube link into London.

The George M. Murray Canning House, built in the late 19th century on Odenton Road ( behind present day 1380 and 1382 Odenton Road ) was a successful operation into the early 1900s.

The Monroe Township Historical Society was formed as a volunteer organization on October 16, 1974, by Mayor John W. Sharp ( of the Canning Company Sharps ), to be composed of volunteer citizens concerned with preserving items that reflect the history of Monroe Township.

* Canning Dam ( on the Canning River ).

Canning saw it as a diversion of troops from the Peninsular War based on a hopeless plan.

The Canning administration ended after only four months on the death of the Prime Minister, and was followed by the ministry of Lord Goderich, which barely survived the year.

He was regarded as an opponent of Catholic emancipation, and on this theme published Letters to Charles Butler ( 1825 ), Letters to Canning ( 1827 ) and A Letter to an English Layman on the Coronation Oath ( 1828 ).

Tom Canning, on organ, joined the band for the tour which started in March 2009.

Negotiations between Canning and Fagel started on 20 July 1820.

In 1793, thanks to the help of Pitt, Canning became a Member of Parliament for Newtown on the Isle of Wight, a rotten borough.

As a result of his charisma and promise, Canning early on drew to himself a circle of supporters who would become known as the Canningites.

Canning was involved in the founding of the Anti-Jacobin, a newspaper which was published on every Monday from 20 November 1797 to 9 July 1798.